Penguin
2blog folder catchup
As always, start out with things overheard:
- Overheard in New York | The United Nations, Encapsulated
- Overheard in the Office | Worst. Staff Meeting. Ever.
- Overheard Everywhere | For Our Safety, You’ll Need to Stand by with Norton Antivirus
- Overheard in New York | Unassailable Logic: A NYC Short Story
- Overheard in the Office | That’s Your Answer to Everything
- Overheard in New York | To Be Fair, No One Knows Why Bob Saget Has a Career
- Overheard in the Office | And I Have That Phrase on a Plaque in My Cubicle
Geeky things:
- How To Make Your Own Magicians String! Video
- How a bobbin works « Material Mama Podcast
- Max Your Ping: January 2008
- Secrets In Websites II | Robert Accettura’s Fun With Wordage
- GeeXboX HomePage
- How to choose a DLNA Media Server for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux – Robert Green’s DIY
- Sawse – Stir it Up! » Blog Archive » Some of the Best CSS Resources on the Web
- GeeXboX uShare UPnP A/V Media Server HomePage
- WELCOME TO EXIT MUNDI: A COLLECTION OF END-OF-WORLD SCENARIOS
- Slashdot | Y2K38 Watch Starts Saturday
- Image:Annual Average Temperature Map.jpg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Image:World Koppen Map.png – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- AUSTIN CITY (CAMP MABRY), TX: Climate and Daylight Chart
Political things:
- Left of Zen » Top 50 Atheism Quotes
- Are Ringtones Unislamic? (Please Don’t Answer!) : ALL THINGS PAKISTAN
Interesting things:
- Movies with the Most Instances of the F-Word | /Film
- Neatorama » Blog Archive » 30 Strangest Deaths in History.
- Don’t send in the clowns – Yahoo! News
- Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School
- Richard Knerr, 82; co-founded Wham-O, maker of the Hula Hoop and Frisbee – Los Angeles Times
Funny things:
Did you know I have a superpower?
No, really — it’s true. I even use it for the forces of good!
What, I hear you plead, could J’s superpower possibly be?
Anything you give me, I can take it and make it worse.
Many folks wonder how useful this particular superpower is. Allow me to describe: Someone walks into our office, supposedly to get something IT-ish done. They listen to what we are talking about, and are so appalled that they either forget what they came in for, or are driven off. Now, that’s not using it for good, but it is useful sometimes.
To use it for good requires more effort, to wit: We are planning something — an upgrade, perhaps. We talk about things that could go wrong, and how we should plan for them. I take everything that could go wrong, and make it worse. This makes the plan more robust.
Another new word
ediot: (n), from idiot. A person who is incapable of using computers, causing much pain to support staff
You can’t spell neologism without…
eracism: (n) 1. The preference for one operating system over another
Examples of eracism:
“Funny, you don’t type that way.”
“Some of my best friends use mac.”
Da bomb.
Neither I, nor anybody I know, nor through at least 3 degrees of separation, has died in a blogging accident.
Feel free to continue on with life as you knew it before.
Catching up.
As usual, starting with overheard things — it almost always cheers me up:
- Overheard in New York | NYC Rules Require Me to F*** with You
- Celebrity Wit | Or Even a Little Bit, for That Matter
- Overheard in New York | Was That Hobo Urine on the Ground? Now I’m Ecstatic
- Overheard Everywhere | Just Squeeze the Trigger Gently
- Left of Zen » Top 100 Funny Quotes
I’ve been doing many things involving streaming flv video files:
- Flashcomguru.com: ‘Streaming’ flv video via PHP, take two
- FLV Encoding | FlowPlayer
- Red5 : Open Source Flash Server Open Source Flash
- yamdi – Yet Another MetaData Injector for FLV
- Red5Gentoo – Bangert’s Dev Overlay – Trac
- ~jk flv streaming
- haxeVideo
Some wordpress (and other geeky) stuff:
- WordPress › WP-dTree 3.3.2 « WordPress Plugins
- WordPress › MiniMeta Widget « WordPress Plugins
- 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
- Gallery2:How To Write Scripts – Gallery Codex
- [hendry’s tips and tricks] Entry
- Fire And Motion – Joel on Software
- 5min – Bluetooth Hacking: How Vulnerable is Your Mobile P – Video
- Microsoft’s Brainwashing Children’s Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?
- Fast CGI and Apache2 for Red Hat Linux 9 in Ruby on Rails
Funny and interesting things:
- Dog retrieves his best friend – a cat buried in the garden – Times Online
- Paul Begala: Fox News: We Report — Even if We Know It’s False – Media on The Huffington Post
- Lesbian bed death – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Eric Schwartz – singer songwriter
- Shepherd’s Pie > Start Cooking
- On Faith: Guest Voices: Abusing Children in the Name of God
- Rec.humor.funny jokes and comedy
Brad has groupies
Brad has groupies
Play-dough stingray
Play-dough stingray
Face painting
Face painting
Making a play-dough stingray
Making a play-dough stingray
Quiet!
We’ve been having many conversations about modern classical music lately. I, of course, keep listening to Philip Glass while Jason really only likes one particular concerto by Krzysztof Penderecki.
Eventually, as all converstaions of this ilk will do, the conversation turned to John Cage and his 4′33″, which Damon described being performed live once by his piano teacher. Apparently, she merely sat in front of the piano. My understanding of the piece is that it should in fact create more tension in the audience by seeming to be about to perform. Specifically, I thought that she should have put her hands above the keyboard. So, how do I state this difference of opinion?
She was playing it wrong!
Well, we thought it was funny.
The ultimate “you know how”
(Not directed at anyone in particular, FWIW.)
You know how I know you’re gay? Your favorite scent at Yankee Candle is used jock.
Grace is winning big time at Texas hold ’em
Grace is winning big time at Texas hold ’em
Grace is getting cold
Grace is getting cold